Softcover. Davis CA, Hermagoras Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 234 pages. clean, like new. The Ethics of Rhetoric argues for the essential moral nature of language, the reciprocal damage done to each when morality and language are separated, a damage which extends to our ability to think and pursue truth. Weaver examines Plato's Phaedrus, the Scopes Trial, and the rhetorical methods of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln to flesh out this position.